v18.6 [Sep 15, 2023]
DaVinci Resolve 18.5 introduces dozens of new tools including 4 new AI tools, over 100 feature upgrades and major updates to the Cut page. Editors can now transcribe audio within clips to search for media based on narrative content, or quickly generate subtitles for timelines with the automatic speech to text feature. DaVinci Neural Engine AI can analyze and automatically sort audio clips based on classification, and on the Fairlight page audio tracks can now be grouped for faster mix automation and editing. Colorists can use the new Relight FX to add virtual lighting to a scene. VFX artists can collaborate more easily with support for USD files and work faster with the multi-merge tool.
- Blackmagic Cloud
DaVinci Resolve 18 supports Blackmagic Cloud, so you can host your project libraries on the DaVinci Resolve Project Server in the cloud. Share projects and work collaboratively with editors, colorists, VFX artists and audio engineers on the same project at the same time, anywhere in the world!
- Blackmagic Proxy Generator
The new Blackmagic Proxy Generator App automatically creates and manages proxies from camera originals. Create a watch folder and new media is automatically converted into H.264, H.265 or ProRes proxies to accelerate editing workflows. You can extract proxies into a separate folder for offline work!
- Simplified
Proxy Workflow
Switch between camera original footage and proxies in a single click. With Blackmagic Proxy Generated proxies, DaVinci Resolve knows where in the file tree to find them, instantly linking to the camera originals in the media pool. Edit with proxies, then relink to camera originals to grade!
- Intelligent Media Management
DaVinci Resolve 18 adds intelligent media location management, so that when you are collaborating you can quickly link media to your unique file paths. Now you don’t need to manually relink or search for assets when you work remotely. So you have more time for creativity and less time on file admin!
- Shared Project Libraries
The collaboration update also provides major performance enhancements if you are using a secure private network! Get immediate updates of editorial and color changes when collaborating on a remotely hosted project library. Now creative decisions can be made in real time based on the latest changes.
- Remote Monitoring to Desktop, iPad or iPhone
You can now initiate remote monitoring using just a Blackmagic ID and a session code. Just enable remote monitoring in DaVinci Resolve and share your code, without having to deal with IP addresses and port forwarding. You can stream to multiple computers, iPads or even iPhones all at the same time.
- Presentations Review
Export your timeline to the Blackmagic Cloud using the new Presentations feature. With Presentations, multiple people can review your timeline, leave comments and even share a live chat. Comments will appear as markers on your DaVinci Resolve timeline, allowing you to act on feedback quickly.
- Timeline Locking within Bins
Collaboration with other editors at the same time is now even easier with the new timeline locking operation. This automatic operation prevents two users selecting the same timeline by locking it to the first user without the need to lock the whole timeline bin. Multiple editors can now work on different timelines in the same bin at the same.
- AI Speech to Text Transcription
The transcribe feature automatically transcribes video and audio clips! Simply select the clips in the media pool and use the menus to select audio transcription and then transcribe. You can mark in and out points to edit or delete text, generate sub clips, add markers and even remove silence.
- Text Based Editing
With speech transcribed to text, you can search for specific terms or jump to the section of a clip where a word appears. Instead of listening to entire scenes or interviews, select multiple clips to search to quickly locate the topic you need and add it to your timeline saving countless hours!
- Automatically Create Subtitles
The auto subtitle feature on the Cut and Edit pages transcribes timeline speech to text automatically into a subtitle track on the timeline. To activate, simply click ‘create subtitles from audio’ in the timeline menu. Once analyzed, click the individual captions to modify them in the inspector.
- Scene Cut Detection
Scene cut detection is now possible directly on the Cut timeline. Simply navigate to the timeline menu and click ‘detect scene cuts’. Selected clips will be analyzed for content and cut points automatically placed on every new edit in the rendered clip. Customers can modify or remove trim points as needed.
- Improved Cut Page Editing
The addition of three new menus to the Cut page timeline allows for quicker and more flexible editing. Use the timeline options, timeline actions and edit actions to toggle ripple editing, trim edit points to the playhead, trim to and resync audio, and change the appearance of the timeline .
v11.1 [Oct 31, 2014]
- Editable in and out points in the source viewer
- Graphical fade sliders for video opacity
- Action and title safe overlays in the edit page
- Improved asymmetric trimming
- A Swap Edit command
- The ability to trim gaps in the timeline
- A full screen timeline option
- Improved Final Cut Pro X XML import and export
- Improved FCP X XML import and export
- Trim support for Quicktime and MXF clips
- Native mixed frame rate support for compound clips
- Allow transitions to be added to multiple selected clips via Cmd T
- Find Source Viewer clip in Media Pool via Option F
- Second layer input for OFX plugins
- OpenCL support for Linux to support AMD GPUs
